Taxon-omics Research Projects - SECOND Phase (2020-2024)

Applying integrative multispecies coalescent models to tackle the long-standing problem of species delimitation in allopatrically distributed populations

Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer, Dr. Julián Torres-Dowdall

Comparative and experimental wing pattern genomics in Lepidoptera

Dr. Marianne Espeland, Dr. Anna K. Hundsdörfer

Concepts, tools and support for managing, archiving, mobilizing and integrating taxonomic data in the framework of SPP 1991

Dr. Ivaylo Kostadinov, Prof. Dr. Miguel Vences

The CARRARA pipeline: Using machine-learning techniques for automated species delimitation in intensively hybridising plant genera based on herbarium specimens

Prof. Dr. Christoph Oberprieler, Prof. Dr. Frank Hellwig, Dr. Robert Vogt

Efficient use of herbarium material - Hybrids in Veronica as case example

Prof. Dr. Dirk Albach

Elevational replacement, higher tropical mountain passes and isolated sky islands: untangling neutral and adaptive processes driving radiation of Andean Apocynaceae (LI 496/33-1, NU 292/4-1)

Prof. Dr. Sigrid Liede-Schumann, Dr. habil. Nicolai M. Nürk

Establishing a standardized and universally applicable set of nuclear-­encoded markers for genome-­wide multi-­locus species delimitation of metazoans

Prof. Dr. Oliver Niehuis, Dr. Christoph Mayer, Dr. Dirk Ahrens, Dr. Lars Podsiadlowski

Exploring genomic methods for delimiting species in radiations of terrestrial snails

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf

Exploring the hidden diversity of widespread predatory amoebae of the order Vampyrellida (Rhizaria)

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hess

Continuing the deep molecular characterization of eukaryotic microorganisms´ diversity and community composition in forest soils and the canopy region using a metatranscriptomics approach (micDiv II)

Prof. Dr. Michael Bonkowski, PD Dr. Kenneth Dumack, Prof. Dr. Martin Schlegel

FrogCap for the taxonomic gap: harnessing hybrid-enrichment for next-generation taxonomy

Prof. Dr. Michael Hofreiter

From field to museum: Harnessing the power of third generation sequencing to establish a simple and cost-effective multiplex approach for spider taxonomy

Dr. Susan Kennedy

Genomics of Hybridization and Species Delimitation in Cichlid Fishes

Prof. Dr. Axel Meyer

Integrated approaches to address taxonomic problems in the Prasiolaceae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)

Dr. Svenja Heesch

Jungle Genomics - overcoming the Linnean shortfall with Nanopore sequencing in biodiversity hotspots

Prof. Dr. Hanno Schaefer

Molecular evidence for sectional classification of shrub willows (Salix L. subg. Chamaetia/Vetrix) based on RAD sequencing data

Dr. Natascha Wagner

Molecular taxonomy of aquatic hyphomycetes by safeguarding of historical collections

PD Dr. Christiane Baschien

New approaches for high throughput species discovery and delimitation within unicellular eukaryotes, exemplified on choanoflagellates

Dr. Frank Nitsche

New approaches for species delimitation from genome data with examples to two widespread fireflies (Lamprohiza splendidula and Photinus pyralis)

Dr. Ana Catalán, Dr. Sebastian Höhna

Ophiuroid phylogenomics: Illuminating “dark” abyssal biodiversity

Prof. Dr. Pedro Martínez Arbizu

Phylogenomics of the genus Hypoxylon based on 50 new high quality genomes and with special emphasis on the H. rubiginosum complex

Prof. Dr. Jörn Kalinowski, Prof. Dr. Marc Stadler, Prof. Dr. Russell Cox

Proteomic fingerprinting for species identification – discriminatory power and optimal analyses procedures for integrated molecular and morphological datasets in zooplankton biodiversity assessments

Dr. Jasmin Renz-Gehnke

Resolving intricate taxonomies by using type material, HybSeq and geometric morphometrics – A proof-of-concept from the nasty Xanthium L. (Asteraceae)

Dr. Salvatore Tomasello

Species delimitation in the apomictic polyploid Ranunculus auricomus complex using an integrative TaxonOMICs approach

Prof. Dr. Elvira Hörandl

Sponge TaxonOMICs v2

Prof. Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck, Dr. Sergio Vargas, Prof. Dr. Gert Wörheide

TaxonOmics of Australian Chenopodiaceae

Prof. Dr. Gudrun Kadereit

The genomic basis of host specificity as tool for species recognition and delimitations in Ustilaginales - a parasite group with high gene flow

Prof. Dr. Dominik Begerow, Dr. Martin Kemler

Hybrid zones among Palearctic amphibian lineages as a model to understand temporal patterns of species formation and refine methods of species delimitation

Prof. Dr. Miguel Vences


Taxon-omics Research Projects - First Phase (2017-2020)

Using herbarium specimens to study evolutionary change related to climate warming - novel uses of natural history collections through specimen and label images

Professor Dr. Susanne S. Renner

Zooplankton biodiversity assessment by an integrated morphological and genetic taxonomy complemented by proteomic fingerprinting as a new and promising tool

Dr. Jasmin Renz-Gehnke

Biological soil crusts as unique microecosystem represent a suitable model system to address taxonomy and cryptic diversity of microalgal key players

Dr. Karin Glaser

Exploring genomic methods for delimiting species in radiations of terrestrial snails

Professor Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf

Next generation taxonomy of Bluebush (Chenopodiaceae): maximising the value of collections through integrated morphology, genomics and image analysis

Adjunct Professor Dr. Gudrun Kadereit

Setting-up a methodological pipeline for species delimitation and species network reconstruction in polyploid complexes

Professor Dr. Christoph Oberprieler & Dr. Robert Vogt

Lecanomics: New ways of species detection and recognition in a ubiquitous group of lichens

Dr. Christian Printzen

The influence of secondary metabolite genes towards the speciation of Xylariaceae (Ascomycota)

Professor Dr. Russell J. Cox & Professor Dr. Marc Stadler

Developing, calibrating and applying a genomic toolbox for species delimitation in Palearctic and tropical amphibians

Professor Dr. Michael Hofreiter & Professor Dr. Miguel Vences

Establishing a standardized and universally applicable set of nuclear-encoded markers for genome-wide multi-locus species delimitation of metazoans

Dr. Dirk Ahrens, Professor Dr. Bernhard Misof & Professor Dr. Oliver Niehuis

Deep mobilization of natural history collections of microscopic organisms using high throughput image analyses and interlinking with molecular data (MobiDiC - MOBIlization of a DIatom Collection)

Dr. Bánk Beszteri & Professor Dr.-Ing. Tim Nattkemper

Microgastropod Taxon-Omics: Towards a probabilistic and automated species-discovery system

Professor Dr. Thomas Wilke

A MuseOMICS approach to scrutinise DNA barcode failure: testing the causes for taxonomic incongruence patterns in phytophagous Hymenoptera and Orthoptera through hybridization capture using RAD probes

Dr. Oliver Hawlitschek & Dr. Stefan Schmidt

Deep molecular characterization of eukaryotic microorganisms´ diversity and community composition in forest soils and the canopy region across biomes using a multiple barcoding approach - micDiv

Professor Dr. Michael Bonkowski & Professor Dr. Martin Schlegel

The biodiversity of apomictic polyploid plants: the Ranunculus auricomus complex

Professor Dr. Elvira Hörandl

Sponge TaxonOMICs

Dr. Dirk Erpenbeck, Dr. Sergio Vargas Ramírez & Professor Dr. Gert Wörheide

Speciation through hybridization: Species concepts in smut lineages with common hybridization

Professor Dr. Dominik Begerow

Phylogenomic analyses from archival DNA

Professor Dr. Michael Hofreiter & Dr. Nicolas Straube

Types and genomes - Solving a conflict in frequently hybridizing taxa of Veronica

Professor Dr. Dirk Albach

Cheap and efficient museomics-based monograph: a test with melons and cucumbers

Professor Dr. Hanno Schaefer

Marine heterotrophic alveolates: a genomic and morphometric single cell approach

Dr. Uwe John

Re-evaluating taxonomy and distribution patterns of the Xanthophyceae (Stramenopiles)

Dr. Nataliya Rybalka

Innovative integration of high-throughput DNA barcoding, transcriptome-based constrained phylogenetics, hyperspectral imaging, and morphology to assess and characterize a poorly known fauna

Adjunct Professor Dr. Steffen U. Pauls

Mapping sequences to protist morphospecies

Dr. Frank Nitsche

Hybrid species recognition using "Next Generation Sequencing" (NGS) of museum specimens

Dr. Anna K. Hundsdoerfer

Analyzing historical plant-pollinator interactions by conducting pollen metabarcoding on museum specimens of German bumblebee species

Professor Dr. Birgit Gemeinholzer, Privatdozent Dr. Alexander Keller, Adjunct Professor Dr. Michael Ohl, Professor Dr. Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

Species Delimitation in East African Cichlid Fish Adaptive Radiations

Professor Dr. Axel Meyer